On April 26, 1975, Peter Yew (simplified Chinese: 姚杨勋; traditional Chinese: 姚楊勛), a Chinese American engineer, was detained and beaten by white police officers after intervening when they assaulted a 15-year-old during a traffic incident.

In April 1975, Peter Yew, a young Chinese-American, asked that police stop beating a 15 year-old whom they had stopped for a traffic violation. For his concern, Yew was savagely beaten right on the spot, taken back to the police station, stripped, beaten again and arrested on charges of resisting arrest and assault on a police officer.

On April 26, 1975, Peter Yew was a part of a crowd that had gathered around the Fifth Precinct police station in New York City's Chinatown. The crowd had followed a vehicle that had left a traffic altercation between a white driver and a Chinese driver.

May 18, 2021 · The demonstration is a reaction to the New York Police Department’s treatment of Peter Yew, a Chinese-American architectural engineer who was arrested, viciously beaten and charged with ...

On April 26, 1975, Peter Yew saw that a crowd had formed around the Fifth Precinct police station in New York City’s Chinatown. As he drew closer, he learned that the crowd had been following a vehicle that had created a traffic altercation between a white driver and a Chinese driver.

May 13, 1975 · The rally, sponsored by the Asian Americans for Equal Employment, was called to protest the alleged beating of Peter Yew, a 27‐year‐old engineer from Brooklyn, by police officers of the Fifth...

Jan 8, 2017 · When a young engineer named Peter Yew was beaten by the police in April of 1975, the news spread quickly around the community. Yew, unlike the Jade Chalet youths, was an educated young adult with no criminal record or gang affiliation to.

Jul 6, 2022 · Peter Yew, a well-educated young man with no criminal record or gang ties, was caught, beaten, and strip-searched by the police just for expressing objections to police behavior. The Yew case gave the Asian American Equal Employment Association another opportunity to …

Jul 2, 1975 · Charges were dismissed yesterday against Peter Yew, whose arrest during a small demonstration in April became a rallying point for thousands of residents of Chinatown and the focus of two major...

Jun 8, 1975 · One of those onlookers was Peter Yew, a 27‐year‐old architectural engineer from Brooklyn who was visiting friends in Chinatown. Mr. Yew was uninvolved in the traffic dispute. But he now charges...